2019年3月26日 · Today, one study reports that they can produce on demand bolt-action rifles with silencers, “Baretta-style revolver shotguns,” and replica Colt pistols. Many of these illegal guns are used by criminals and political thugs. Awka is not the only place in West Africa that produced such weapons before the age of colonization.

Over time, the town became known for metal working and its blacksmiths were prized throughout the region for making farming implements, dane guns and such ceremonial items as Oji (staff of mystical power) and Ngwuagilija (staff of Ozo men). [9]

2007年5月25日 · Apart from the above weapons sources, there are local underground arms manufacturing industries in Awka, the capital of Anambra State in eastern Nigeria. There, local blacksmiths produce weapons popularly called, “Awka made.” The Awka guns cannot be classified as automatic weapons because the quality of the weapons is so poor.

2019年2月16日 · AWKA, the Anambra State capital, is known as the blacksmith city because the town used to excel in manufacturing such items as guns, gongs, pots and metal wares of all kinds.

2007年12月11日 · The Biafran rebels needed weapons, and Awka, which had been a center of metal working for over a thousand years, mobilized thousands of metal workers to build crude firearms. The weapons manufacturing continued after the war, mainly to supply hunters, gangsters, and anyone needing an illegal firearm for any reason.

Awka blacksmiths were prized throughout the region for making farming implements, dare guns and ceremonial items such as 'Oji' (staff of mystical power) and blacksmiths many years to understand the magnetic properties of iron.

2021年4月6日 · With an artisanal history of blacksmith skills in gun making transferred through several generations, Awka is regarded as the centre point for gun production, bombs (Ogbunigwe, in Igbo language of Southeastern Nigeria), gunpowder, repairs of weapon parts and for acquiring craft production skills in Nigeria (Uchegbu 2015).

One of Awka’s nearly 200 blacksmiths, an elderly resident known as “Shore Battery,” constructs and sells firearms for any paying customer; bolt-action rifles (with silencers) sell for US$170, Beretta-style revolver shotgun prototypes for US$200, and Colt pistols for US$60.29 The price of the weapon reflects its quality and killing ...

Awka smiths virtually dominated metalworking in a vast sector of southeastern Nigeria. In the absence of local smithing industries along the coast, they supplied needed goods to the Ijo and peoples of the Niger Delta. Elsewhere reputedly superior Awka skills supplemented indigenous workshops. In a few instances Awka

2014年1月1日 · In Awka, Anambra State Nigeria, this occupation has come under intense threats associated with modernity. The paper attempts a theoretical analysis of threats associated with modernity as it...